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- the UUCP polling server R0.68 92/08/03
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- (c)Copyright 1991,92 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights Reserved.
- (c)Copyright 1991,92 Cyvaned Systems, All Rights Reserved.
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- * THIS RELEASE (R0.68) AND ALL FOLLOWING ARE OS2.04 ONLY. *
- * USERS OF OS2.04 HAVE TO USE THIS RELEASE! *
- * USERS OF OS1.3 HAVE TO USE UUPOLL R0.67 OR OLDER! *
- * FOR THESE REASONS THIS DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES R0.67 ALSO! *
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- FEATURES
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- - controls the execution of a UUCICO child as the parent part
- - checks for correct hostname and polling-time violation
- - controls abortion of UUCICO due to a precalculated restriction time
- - operates dependendly on status of last session
- - operates dependendly on (specific) pending work
- - controls dialup retries due to busy line or other UUCICO failures
- - controls abortions due to user interupts
- - can be disabled through a job control feature for contab interventions
- - can abort a startup due to or break already running UUCICO process
- - can give information about polling times and host status
- - can setup your modem before start of a polling session
- - can spawn UUCICO with additional options
- - can spawn own user command after a (successful) session
- - full UUCP logfile support similar to UUCICO
- - can run under full runtime debugging with variable debug level
-
-
- CHANGES SINCE LAST DISTRIBUTED RELEASE R0.65
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- R0.66 [920323]
- - Fixed a problem in command name which occured when starting
- UUPOLL from SKSH.
- - Changed the "_" (underscore) in enviroment variables to a
- "." (dot) Just for consistence with my other programs.
-
- [920410]
- - Added the UUPOLL Job Control feature (was recently
- implemented as own shell script) directly to UUPOLL. Now
- you can _switch_ the job control directly via UUPOLL.
-
- [920421]
- - Fixed a bug in control-c abortion. UUPOLL hangs if it was
- breaked and no UUCICO process was running (i.e. if it is
- inside a retry delay!).
- - Now UUPOLL substracts 30 seconds from the restriction time
- if it was calculated to let the tasks time to cleanup on
- time bounds. If the restriction time is given explicitly
- (via '-t') nothing is adjusted.
-
- [920422]
- - Added new -p feature: Now you can say "Poll only if pending
- work" directly to UUPOLL instead of doing this by specifing
- "-r1" to UUCICO. You can also say "Poll only if more than
- or equal to N files are pending for that system".
- - Added new option '-c': UUPOLL can check for any running
- UUCICO processes at startup and either abort due to this or
- break the process (and wait 20s) before going on with the
- polling procedure.
-
- [920510] .. [920605]
- - Changed the old information feature (-i) to a real one!
- Now UUPOLL gives you information about all status and all
- restriction times plus a full 72 hour polling time chart!
-
- [920605]
- - Fixed a serious bug in tokenize(): The pointer table wasn't
- terminated by a NULL pointer which leads to a deadloop when
- processing this table until the (non existing) NULL pointer
- will be found.
- - Now UUPOLL supports multiline host entries in uulib:l.sys.
- - Replaced old restriction time calculation by new algorithm
- from "host status". Now UUPOLL handles _all_ time intervals
- (even those on serious time/day bounds)
-
- R0.67 [920606]
- - Fixed a inconsitence in host status output. The "[#]" will
- no longer appear in `short host status'.
- - Added a remark in the manual about the `-u "-X -Y -Z ..."'
- side effect!
- - Added new `-n' option: Now a user can be notified if the
- session fails due to max number of retries or restriction
- timeout.
-
- [920716]
- - THIS IS THE LAST OFFICIAL RELEASE FOR OS1.3!!
- Because the current UUPOLL doesn't run under OS2.04 because
- of a bug in SAS/Lattice fork() functions, I will stop the
- OS1.3 support at this point. Do not run this under later
- releases of AmigaOS than 1.3!!
-
- R0.68 [920716]
- - Extracted the strings from info.c to external files to
- give more overview to the source.
-
- [920716] .. [920718]
- - Replaced old SAS/Lattice fork() enviroment by an OS2.04
- dependend replacement. The only restriction now: the
- UUCICO executeable has to stay in the same directory as
- UUPOLL (not the current one, but the same!), but this is no
- real restriction (except the fact, that UUPOLL no longer can
- be made resident).
-
- [920718]
- - Enhanced the '-pN' (pending work) option: if N>0 poll only
- if more or equal to N pending files, if N=0 poll independend
- of any pending files (same as not specifing this option), if
- N<0 poll only if less or equal to N pending files.
- - Now the modemsetup function uses the commands given at the
- fake-hostentry named "default" if no entry for the current
- host can be found to setup the modem.
-
- [920802] .. [920803]
- - Updated the manual and cleaned up a lot of source.
- - Splitted up option '-i0' and '-i1' to '-i' and '-I'.
- - Added new option '-P' which acts like the old '-p' but takes
- the KBytes found to determine whether there is pending work
- or not.
- - Fixed some bad bugs which occured at NotifyOnFailure and
- SystemCmnd. Updated the internal command line parsing.
- - Added OS-Check: Now UUPOLL no longer starts on OS < 37.xx.
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- HOW TO GET
-
- Subject: "UUPoll Release 0.68 (Part x/y)"
-
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches (World)
- de.alt.binaries.amigaos (Germany)
- cyvaned.amiga (Cyvaned Systems LAN)
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- ___ _______
- /__)(_ /_ Ralf S. Engelschall
- / \____)(___ rse@angle.sub.org
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